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Dear class,
Today, we talked about the long weekend and your overall excellent Bill of Rights Quiz scores! We also started up with looking at the Oregon congressional delegation. Here's the recap for today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 1: I can demonstrate an understanding of the interplay between citizens and their governments.
Knowledge LT 5: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.
Soundtrack: "World Peace" by Rihanna. Selected for today because I am wishing the juniors peace for their ACT tomorrow. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 3/16/15:
News Brief – Joselyne
Reps in Congress
Make Bill Proposals
Computer Lab S219
Homework: Read the blog. Finish the Oregon representatives handout. Make bill proposals. Next news brief: Evita.
News Brief: Joselyne had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: FoxNews.com - Police arrest Missouri man, 20, in shooting of two officers in Ferguson. Obviously, Ferguson has been a huge ongoing presence in the news. This relates especially to the debate about guns that we have been looking into in class!
Evita volunteered for the next news brief.
Evita volunteered for the next news brief.
Oregon Representatives: Next, it was time to learn more about who serves Oregon as representatives in Congress at the federal level. Here is the handout that I passed out in class:
The main point here is to know who our representatives are and what they believe. There was another page to start, which was on the demographics of the 114th Congress - pick that up in class, if you missed it.
Make Bill Proposals: I apologize that I did not do this before we went to the Computer Lab, but here are the questions I want you to answer for your bill proposals, before next class:
1. What are you proposing?
2. Who will it impact?
3. When will it begin or end?
4. Where (which states) will be impacted?
5. Why should this bill pass?
6. How much will it cost?
We will have an interesting simulation where one of the government classes is the House of Representatives, and the other is the Senate!
Make Bill Proposals: I apologize that I did not do this before we went to the Computer Lab, but here are the questions I want you to answer for your bill proposals, before next class:
1. What are you proposing?
2. Who will it impact?
3. When will it begin or end?
4. Where (which states) will be impacted?
5. Why should this bill pass?
6. How much will it cost?
We will have an interesting simulation where one of the government classes is the House of Representatives, and the other is the Senate!
Computer Lab S219: For the rest of the class, we were in the computer lab, working on the Oregon representatives handout.
Thanks for your work on this! See you next class!
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